un-pretentious

Updated: May 29, 2025

The summer garden is a fabrication of green trees and the cool glimmer of shaded water, rather than the flower-beds, the turf, and shrubbery of the Occidental conception of a garden; the Ameer's quarters consist of an un-pretentious one-storied building fronting on the lake.

Thomas Stevens - Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II : From Teheran To Yokohama